Archive for March, 2008
Food for Thought
As I was cleaning out the inbox on my desk, I came across correspondence from one of John’s something-removed cousins (Bobbi). John’s great-aunt passed in February and Bobbi sent this letter once the funeral was over and her family was back at home. In it, she included a quote that her grandmother had [...]
This Evening I Shined My Sink
The FlyLady system used to work very well for me when we were in Baltimore, but somewhere along the way I’ve fooled myself into believing that I just don’t have time to do it. I’ve got a busy job that keeps me away from home for 9 hours + 2 hours of commute. [...]
On To Lighter Subjects
Now that I’ve gotten the ObamaJama ranting out of my system (although I will have popcorn handy for that speech tomorrow), back to lighter subjects.
As you can see, the site is back up. The transfer went fairly smoothly although there were a couple of small bugs. I don’t have my photo gallery back [...]
Change You Can Delete
I wrote a follow-up to my original “The Audacity of Racism” post yesterday, but pulled it because I was afraid I had gone a little far into right field. Now I’m really feeling sorry that I did. The quote it was based on was this:
“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the Christian tenet, [...]
Our Financials are a Mess
I spent some time reading about yesterday’s Bear Sterns meltdown. By the end of the day, JP Morgan Chase and the Federal Reserve were saving them from shuttering their doors, and the Dow was down by nearly 200 points. It really got me thinking about this market of ours.
The price of gold on [...]
The Audacity of Racism
I hope that Jeremiah Wright doesn’t mind that I borrowed from his sermon title, but it seemed very fitting. Oh, you don’t know who Jeremiah Wright is? He, until very recently retiring, was Barak Obama’s pastor of over 20 years. He married the Obabma’s, baptized their children and spiritually fed them for two decades. Despite retiring from the pulpit in January, Wright continues to be a driving force in Obama’s life as his campaigns spiritual adviser. The continued association with and dependence on Jeremiah Wright is what is so disturbing about Obama’s backpedaling in the last 24 hours concerning some of Wright’s more controversial sermons.
Upcoming Site Outage
Rivetbangers.com* has finally grown large enough that it needs its own server, so it will be going down for up to 48 hours while we make the switch. At the same time we�re doing that, I�ll be upgrading the operating system on this server. You�ve been warned, so don�t panic if you get �not found� [...]
